An attempt is made to share the truth regarding issues concerning Israel and her right to exist as a Jewish nation. This blog has expanded to present information about radical Islam and its potential impact upon Israel and the West. Yes, I do mix in a bit of opinion from time to time.

Monday, July 07, 2014

Co-Dependency Day for Post-America

Sultan Knish
The barges were towed along the Hudson. Streets were blocked off, police
officers collecting overtime were assembled as the crowds trickled in
early to grab prime viewing positions for the fireworks display in a
celebration of freedom under heavy guard by opponents of freedom. They
were not celebrating the freedoms of the Declaration or the
Constitution, but the freedom to get free things.

Nancy
Pelosi explained that the ObamaCare mandate was a penalty on “Free
Riders”. Down by the Hudson River, British warships once plied the
waterway in a bid to prevent the colonists from acting as “Free Riders”
on their investment.

The debate over whether people could be
disenfranchised and compelled to pay for the grandiose plans of an out
of touch government was eventually thought to have been settled further
north at Saratoga. But the debate is back.

Co-Dependence Day is
the new Independence Day. “I love you, you tolerate me and we all live
together in a happy planned economy.” Free riders are people who, like
the Colonists, are perceived to have benefited from the gargantuan
investment of government without paying their proper share.

All
that the Crown really wanted was for the colonists to pay their “fair
share”, a share that was determined thousands of miles away. All that
the colonists wanted was the rights of Englishmen that they believed
they were entitled to. After a great deal of bloodshed, the colonists
won the right to be Americans instead—an odd series of consonants and
vowels having to do with an Italian explorer but meaning free and
limited government.

The “Free Riders” who didn’t want to pay into
the empire won the day, but hardly anyone in the crowds heading toward
the Hudson remembered what the day was about. The denizens of public
housing, who are the true “Free Riders”, certainly don’t. They are
getting a free ride on everything from food to housing, but the free
ride comes from the taxpayers that Pelosi and Obama damn as “Free
Riders”. And the only way to keep their free ride going is by ending
everyone else’s freedom.

The fireworks are just one more free
thing in the sea of free things that they swim in. The Fourth to them is
Fireworks Day. Every country has its fireworks days and this is the day
that this one chooses to light up the night sky. The day means nothing
to them because though they are surrounded by free things, they aren’t
free.

The difference between freedom and free things has been
progressively erased so that many think that the American Revolution was
fought because the British weren’t providing affordable health coverage
to the colonies. If only they knew about the NHS, they would vote to go
back.

There is a big difference between a free country and a
country of free things. You can have one or the other, but you can’t
have both. A free country isn’t obsessed with free riders, only a
country of free things obsesses with making everyone pay their fair
share for the benefit of the people who want the free things.

The
rugged individualism of Colonial America has given way to stifling
crowds, co-dependent on each other, lined shoulder to shoulder,
clutching at each other’s wallets, crying, “Take from him and give to
me.”

We are a nation overflowing with the right to things paid
for with other people’s money. A nation where the government gives you
food, housing and education; while Walmart gives you cheap products made
in China, that used to be made in America, back when people were able
to afford health care, housing and food without having to pick each
other’s pockets.

The fireworks that shoot up in a wonderland of
blue and red, silver and gold, are a faint echo of the real thing, the
gunpowder that blasted back and forth between the lines of government
troops, their Hessian mercenaries and the rebel colonists who chose to
ride free, rather than bend their necks to the plans of an expanding
empire. The faint smell of gunpowder and the dark shapes of the barges
only mime the war that was fought here. A play of light and shadow whose
meaning reaches fewer and fewer people each year.

The expected
speeches will celebrate some notion of American Exceptionalism and
Independence, but what substance is there to either one? Did so many men
risk their lives just to end up with a system that made the one they
escaped seem positively libertarian by comparison? If they had known
that they were going to end up with the NHS, death panels that will
eventually adopt some version of the Liverpool Care Pathway’s euthanasia
protocol, and a co-dependent system where everyone is looted for the
greater good of the looters—they might have stayed home on their farms,
sadly watching the fighting from a distance.

JFK’s famous line,
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your
country” was always a hollow lie. Half the country is expected to ask
what their country can do for them, while the other half is expected to
ask what they can do for their country.

This simmering civil war
is often pegged as a class war, but it isn’t about class. There are
billionaires and paupers on both sides, and the divide cuts across the
Middle Class, dividing those who derive their income from private
business from those who receive it from government and
government-subsidized employment.

The
Fourth of July is Independence Day, but every other day is
Co-Dependence Day, the days we celebrate our integration, our
volunteerism and our compliance with a vast system which makes everyone
dependent on the government and which makes the government dependent on
everyone who still works for someone other than the government—including
the freest of free riders, who work for themselves.

Empires function by draining every drop from their possessions to cover their costs.

The
British Crown tried to drain America to pay down its debt, resulting in
growing protests from the population and eventually a revolution. Now
the Empire of Co-Dependency is draining its independent subjects for the
benefit of its dependent subjects and the dependency infrastructure
that employs its numberless bureaucrats who govern it all.

The
Tea Party, both of them, began when an out of touch government and its
monarch levied taxes on a subject population that the cloistered capital
considered mere savages, clinging to backward beliefs and living
without the benefit of the civilization to be found in the inner cities
of the realm.

The Gadsen flag with its twining serpent is not a
symbol to be found on the split river that flows around a narrow island.
But the island was a Loyalist government enclave even then, that
Washington was forced to flee, putting the torch to half of Brooklyn to
aid his escape. Now the new empire operates out of a city named after
him and buildings with more bureaucrats than the entire deployment of
British forces in the colonies govern what is still described as a “Free
Nation.”

The American Revolution was not a struggle for another
nation, one of many, but for a free nation. It was not split off to
accommodate the national strivings of an ethnic group or their
historical destiny. Its guiding idea, like its national holiday, was
independence, but independence means very little unless it reaches the
individual.

A nation where everyone is part of one great
co-dependent community, a centrally planned marketplace that can only be
balanced if everyone is forced to buy what they are told to buy, is not
a free nation. It will not even be independent for long. The logic of
co-dependence is to expand that dependency beyond the borders and make
the region and then every part the world dependent on one another to
balance out the numbers.

Co-dependence required an end to states
rights. It will eventually require an end to the rights of nations. The
Eurozone is a spectacle of co-dependent economic implosion with bailouts
for all in the name of a regional stability that cannot be sustained.
America, like Spain and Greece, is also passing along its debt to more
vibrant economies. We are no longer co-dependent with the Mother
Country, instead we are co-dependent with the People’s Republic of
China, buying their products, while their buy our debt.

As
Britain gives way to the European Union and America gives way to NAFTA
and nations give way to the United Nations, the burden of dependency is
passed on to greater and greater systems until its weight is more than
that of the entire world. That burden of co-dependency is like a rock
rolling downhill; it gathers more and more mass to itself, increasing
its momentum, until it crashes.

The system attempts to stay ahead
of the inevitable crash by making sure that every productive person
pays his “fair share”. It hunts for “Free Riders”, both individuals and
nations, who still aren’t rolling downhill, tips them over and pushes
them off the mountain. All in the name of the greater good.

The
“Free Rider” principle is that the benefits of a policy must be forcibly
extended to everyone in order to mandate that they help fund the
entitlement. There is no natural limit to such an expansion. If your
wages can be said to have risen because unions negotiated a new
contract, then you can be compelled to pay the union. If you aren’t
buying health insurance, then you must be getting it for free. If you
aren’t part of the system, then there will be a mandate that will make
you part of it.

“Free
Riders” is a polite version of the Soviet Union’s “Parasites”. The
concept is the same. In a system where benefits are extended to
everyone, everyone is obligated to the system. The new Crown is not a
person, it is an idea. The throne at whose foot a formerly free people
kneel is the golden seat of the welfare state. While the fireworks
light up the sky, a counterrevolution undid the revolution. There is a
new king and his face is on every magazine cover in the land. His bounty
turns everyone into a ward of the state at their own expense.

As
the last wave of fireworks die out, the shooting stars sinking to earth
and vanishing into the darkness, the light of Independence Day fades
and the crowds slowly trudge away from the brief spectacle, past the
lines of police barricades, through narrow streets, past government
buildings, back to their co-dependent lives in a co-dependent nation
where the will of the people and the rights of the individual matter
less than the latest proposal to solve the problems of their
independence by making the country a more dependent place.

A few
hundred years ago in these streets, men and women celebrated the end of
tyranny, and in its darkest hour, lines of grim men marched along the
waterfront up to the highest point on the island to mount a final
defense. Sometimes the older buildings still wear their shadows on
their brick walls and by the golden light of the fireworks you can
almost see them, shadows moving in the darkness, their footsteps taking
them north, a faint song on their lips, muskets in their hands, their
lives lost and gained in defense of their freedom.

We are hypocrites and cowards - we take freedom for granted as it is eroding underneath our feet‏

Message to offended Muslims

A GOOD, TRUE STORY NOT KNOWN BY MANY.....Air Force.

The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

What happened?

Mark Hasten Tribute Video Touro College

Housing Quiz

The Record-so far...!

CBS special on Bengazi

Report: 83 percent of doctors have considered quitting over Obamacare

Sally Nelson

Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association.

Islamization on the move

"What we are dealing with is Islamization. Islamization is the imposition of ideological norms in increasing severity. Like Nazification, it transforms a society by remaking it in its own image from the largest to the smallest of details."Daniel Greenfield

Toronto rejects Anti-Israel Ads...

Shrinking Lands

Why Israel opposes international forces in the jordan valley/

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Islam is Islam, And That’s It

Back in 2007, when confronted with the phrase “moderate Islam”, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan famously responded: “These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading and annotating this video: View video at http://gatesofvienna.net/

There's no racist like a liberal racist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vz4PjxSmtoI

Ex-Navy SEAL Drops Bombshell On FOX: Says Government is Creating Conditions to Impose Martial Law R

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDuds14OBiE#t=156

American surprise

The Nairobi Mall Massacre

Ninh Chu Ninh Chu

Islam Untied

Platitudes about Islam being a faith of peace are not credible anymore. Islam is only as good as the way its followers practice it; and if they have created killing fields in the name of Islam, then Islam will be recognized by the silence of those who did not speak out when their faith was being massacred to massacre humanity.

AFTERBURNER w/ BILL WHITTLE: The Lynching

What-are you against peace?

Sydney Wake Up The Horrific Muslim Infiltration Of Britain - Luton

Kerry: 'Core Issue of Instability ... Is the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict'‏

Kerry is no friend. By endorsing the "Arab peace initiative" he shows his true intentions and beliefs . And by endorsing linkage he shows that he is either a liar or a fool.Syria is on fire, Egypt is at best incredibly unstable and this is due to Israel? It is out in the open!

A word to left-wing students

In their own words-ru listening?

"The lesson these Islamist groups appear to be drawing from events in Egypt is that democratic engagement with opponents is pointless. And that doesn't bode well for countries with strong Islamist movements..."

Flashback: Obama Admits He Cut Medicare

Another Democratic slogan blown to h....

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

When nations and cultures ignore the early warning signs of the infiltration of radical Islam

The UK has 85 sharia courts. France has over 750 “no go zones,” Muslim enclaves where even French police don’t enter.

Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDKk15KcqNk&feature=email

No such thing as "Islamophobia"

However, if you do not want your positions challenged or criticized or even researched, make up a new "phobia"-shout it long enough and some "people", agenda driven, will use it. Ay, yes, the false term does keep many, many financially rewarded-follow the money.gs don morris, Ph.D.

Khader Adnan: Leader of Islamic jihad or innocent baker?

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.More...

Omar Barghouti's Propaganda at USC on January 12, 2012

Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’ -- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.Clare M. Lopez

Americans are opening their eyes

Advertisers fleeing All-American Muslim 'propaganda'The American people are seeing through the propaganda piece that is TLC's All-American Muslim reality/dawah show, and responsible advertisers are fleeing in droves. The show aims to combat a trumped-up problem, "Islamophobia," by presenting Muslims who are just ordinary folk, and

Why Islam is Incompatible with Western Law

Col. Allen West answers a question on muslim terror

Challah's Gaza Rocket Counter

This Month:4Last Month:191

This Year: 562

Total since 2002: 12055

Cease fire Hamas style!!

Thanks http://challahhuakbar.blogspot.com/

"Islamophobia"

"Islamophobia" was a politically manipulative coinage designed to silence critics of Islamic supremacism.It was invented, deliberately, by a Muslim Brotherhood front organization, the International Institute for Islamic Thought, which is based in Northern Virginia.

10 Unknown West Bank Facts

Liberals Redefine "Extremism" and the "Political Center"

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist.The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Don’t ever call it ‘West Bank’ again

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Who do the territories belong to?

The legal borders of Israel under international law

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror YeminiIn 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state. Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

How Liberals Argue

Hebrew Univ-you rock!!

Judea and Samaria are not "occupied" lands-why?

Judea-Samaria were not only parts of the ancient Jewish homeland but were recognized as part of the Jewish National Home recognized by San Remo and the League of Nations [1920, 1922] and by the UN charter [article 80; 1945].

"Political Correctness."

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."Texas A&M

Christopher Monckton Speaking in St. Paul on the climate issues

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

WHAT Golda Meir actually said...

"When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist." Golda Meir June 15, 1969: Interview in the UK Sunday Times

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

About Me

Semi-retired Professor, now also permanent resident of Israel;divides time between both countries-serves on several Boards of Directors for Israel advocacy groups;Chana, resident of Jerusalem, JCPA member